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Author Clifford, James, 1945-

Title The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.09 C637P    Check Shelf
Description xii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370) and index.
Contents The pure products go crazy -- On ethnographic authority -- Power and dialogue in ethnography: Marcel Griaule's initiation -- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski -- On ethnographic surrealism -- A poetics of displacement: Victor Segalen -- Tell about your trip: Michel Leiris -- A politics of neologism: Aimé Césaire -- The jardin des plantes: postcards -- Histories of the tribal and the modern -- On collecting art and culture -- On Orientalism -- Identity in Mashpee.
Subject Ethnology -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Indexed Term Western culture, 1900-
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